re: Kirk Herbstreit worried for college football: "What the hell is happening to our sport?"

A lot of college football fans have been reluctant to change over the past decade because of how great the sport is at it's best, and many were skeptical of the negatives that could come as we shifted towards a Playoff. College Football has also been most negatively impacted by COVID because the environment and atmosphere is so important to the sport, the event that surrounds the game itself, has been drastically altered.

All that being said the playoff is here to stay so we have to move to more ways to preserve more meaningful games late in the season. Is it likely that 6,7,and 8 seeds are going to.win a playoff game against a top seed? No, but giving more teams an opportunity to play their way in creates more meaningful games.... Particularly power 5 tie ins. Let the top 2 (or even 4) non power 5 schools have a play in to a spot, maybe even give them a 5 or 6 seed.
A proactive approach needs to be taken in order to keep the rest of the country feeling a part of the national appeal to the sport. Right now it's a yearly shuffle of 2 or 3 SEC Schools, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Clemson, Notre Dame and a small chance of a few others.

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If you are not in a P5 conference join one if you want to be in the playoffs simple as that.

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Yeah, it's really that simple to join a P5! No trouble at all! Why didn't all the G5 teams think of that?!?

As a fan of FCS and D2 football I am convinced an FBS playoff expansion would be a good thing.

My team is South Dakota in the MVFC. The goal is to make the playoffs each year. In years where USD is in the playoff hunt it is exciting. Every game matters. You follow other games with playoff implications as well. The conference title autobid matters. So many games mean so much more deep into the season. And while NDSU dominates FCS titles lately it is still fun. First round byes, home field advantage. Every game matters.

If FBS expanded playoffs then winning the conference would matter again. Division races matter. Games in the Big 12, PAC, every conference matter.

Now unless you are Bama or Clemson who both get that one oopsie loss, if you lose once you're done. I mean, you still might have a chance to win the conference or get a good bowl but ESPN don't care and they don't talk about you.

FBS could expand the playoffs to at least 8 and ALL games would have more meaning.

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2. Alabama being AMAZING and making the playoff a couple times while not winning the division isn’t a damning thing like you want it to be.

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I'm not twisting this into an anti-Bama thing like you want. You said it was important and its just not, not like it used and the toothpaste will never be put back in the tube.

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This is ridiculous

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this certainly is

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Saban and Alabama teaming up for the greatest dynasty anyone has ever seen didn’t kill conference championships.

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of course not, how many times do i have to say it started in 2001 with Nebraska It continued with 2003 OU and even 2016 Ohio State.

Never the less, Alabama has made title games after not winning the conference and took advantage of that 2nd chance. I also found it incredibly ironic
that an Alabama fan would say its important to win the conference given those 2 recent seasons and (on an LSU board of all places) when a fair number of your fans said how unimportant it was during those seasons.

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Yeah, it's really that simple to join a P5! No trouble at all! Why didn't all the G5 teams think of that?!?

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I was talking mainly about ND, any conference in America would gladly take them.

Think about what a playoff would do for a team like La Tech or Tulane. They would get national exposer and playoff money. A lot of those teams that usually get beat by P5 teams in meaningless bowls would be able to play for a championship.

Which would you rather watch, a playoff game or the Poulan Weedeater bowl?

Why would Notre Dame join a conference and lose all the huge money making rivalry games? It’s amazing people are ostriches

They like Army BYU and Navy got national TV deals and don’t share anything

Navy complained and CBS decided ok we will give you a national contract after DOD said something.

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So what does that mean for BYU as they are not a G5 school as ND is not either but got favorable rules because they sell seats and commercials

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Notre Dame plays 9-10 P5 opponents every year, how many does BYU play? the only time ND made the playoffs (and BCS CG) they were undefeated. hardly "favorable" treatment when every other P5 team will make the playoff if they go undefeated

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Why would Notre Dame join a conference and lose all the huge money making rivalry games? It’s amazing people are ostriches

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i may be mistaken or may not longer be true but i think they make/made less off their NBC deal than SEC and B1G teams do on their various deals.

The bigger issue is tradition, its their tradition. LSU fans get our panties in a wad when TV wants us to play at 230, even on the road

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I'm not twisting this into an anti-Bama thing like you want. You said it was important and its just not, not like it used and the toothpaste will never be put back in the tube.

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I promise I’m not trying to make this a you vs Alabama thing.

I just think it’s ridiculous to say one of the greatest Alabama teams ever not quite measuring up in the regular season to one the THE greatest CFB ever in 2011 is a reason to think conference championships don’t matter moving forward.

They still matter. And Alabama being the 2nd best team in 2011 won’t change that.

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The FCS playoff are great to watch

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They really are. I also like the high seed hosting all the way through the semis.

I went to a FCS playoff game once several years ago. Georgia Southern vs Old Dominion in Norfolk. QBs were Jerick McKinnon and Taylor Heinecke. GSU outscored them 28-0 in the 4th quarter to turn a 35-21 deficit into a 49-35 win. That was a crazy game.